Psalm 137

Psalm 137Tree of Life Version (TLV)

By the Rivers of Babylon

Psalm 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon,we sat down and wept,when we remembered Zion.2 On the willows therewe hung up our harps.3 For there our captors demanded songsand our tormentors asked for joy:“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”4 How can we sing a song of Adonai in a foreign land?5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,let my right hand wither.6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouthif I cease to remember you,if I do not set Jerusalem above my chief joy.7 Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom,what they said on the day Jerusalem fell:“Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”8 O daughter of Babylon, the devastated one,happy is the one who repays youas you have paid us.9 Happy is the one who seizes your little onesand dashes them upon the rock.

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